YPONOMEUTIDAE
(small ermine moths)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
YPONOMEUTINAE a subfamily of moths					Subfamily	6 subtaxa	73 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	YPONOMEUTIDAE (small ermine moths)
Superfamily	YPONOMEUTOIDEA (small ermine, bent-wing, ermel and smudge micro-moths)
Infraorder	Heteroneura (an infraorder of moths and butterflies)
Suborder	GLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
Order	LEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

YPONOMEUTIDAE is also a member of:
Microlepidoptera - micro-moths (via Yponomeutoidea)
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Emmet, A.M., Langmaid, J. & Heath J.	1996	Yponomeutidae to Elachistidae (vol 3)	The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 3, 452pp, Harley Books
Larvae/Leaf-miners
	Anon.		British Leafminers	www.leafmines.co.uk/
	Dickerson, B.	2007	The identification of leaf-mining Lepidoptera	http://www.leafmines.co.uk/html/Mine_Guide.htm
	Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R.		The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects	www.ukflymines.co.uk

YPONOMEUTIDAE (small ermine moths) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

LEPIDOPTERA
(butterflies and moths)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Microlepidoptera
(micro-moths)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for YPONOMEUTIDAE (small ermine moths)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 12 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for YPONOMEUTIDAE (small ermine moths)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

YPONOMEUTIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Larvae/Leaf-miners

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)